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Flitz? You may want to try different ammunition, and find a combo that works well. Could be the pistol is just finicky about the loads it digests? It might prefer standard loads, or it might need something hotter. Some other tips and info: http://www.handgunforum.net/beretta/25932-beretta-tomcat-jaming-issues.html http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-711606.html http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-346177.html http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-140879.html Frame cracks?

"Is Remington getting eaten up by competition or do you think the peak sales and shortages created after Obama's election are finally over?" Depends on how the competition looks on paper. The market has changed. Remington's rise to dominance arose after WWII with the introduction of less-expensive, simplified-production firearms. The 721/722 Rifles (and their descendents, the 700 rifle series) with their 3-piece brazed bolts, sheet metal stamping, and "alloy" parts, undercut the competition in terms of price, while retaining (if not improving) pre-war reliability and accuracy. Their shotguns set the standard for both value and innovation; the 870, 1148, and 1100 were the standards for hunters, trap and skeet shooters, and law-enforcement. Remington has much competition today. Much of the market has shifted to "black rifles" (which I can't stand, but I'll leave it alone); Remington is a player in a sea of other M-16 clones. So is Ruger. Remington makes a 1911 clone; so does Ruger. And like Winchester post-64, Remington gets to compete against itself with gun cabinets FILLED with excellent, field-able M700s. If people want auto loaders, they get black rifles now, not the classic Remington pumps and autos of yester-year. Where Remington left-off, Savage has taken-over with even lower costs, higher value, and an improved reputation for field reliability and accuracy. When I walk to the scoring-chair at my local trap range during a shoot, I glance at the shotguns lined-up in the range's racks; the shooters are close at hand, gossiping and getting meals and refreshments. I'm not actually a trap shooter, but I help support my local club with my time. I don't see many Remingtons with "adults"; by adults, I mean someone with more than just a couple years of trap under their belt. Adults play with Bennellis, Berettas, Brownings, expensive Italian and Germanic-named offerings, and an impressive array of custom-shop beauties. High school kids and those new to the sport have ***USED*** 870s and 1100s in-hand. Many of the "schoolers" have already upgraded to break-action over/unders or trap specials. I've seen an occasional Remington Peerless and an even rarer Ruger Red Label. I love my 870; best field gun I have right now. Utterly reliable in every extreme. I've never been a fan of the M700 with its brazed-on bolt handle and miniscule extractor; I have many friends who love their 700s, and proudly harvest every year with them. Where is Remington's market? Am I missing something?

This link is a fairly "basic" sporter M-N: http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=150441&page=0&fpart=14&vc=1 I think it's a slick rifle; the only real modification is the magazine (and odd caliber). This guy went all-out: http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=353156 It's not the rifle, but the chambering. If they would have used a .473" headsize cartridge(8x57, 30'06, etc.), I think we'd see much more work done with them. Without significant action alteration, M-N users are stuck with the 7.62x54R or the 6.5x54R Vostok.

You'll have to verify your year. Looks like D-frame Colts are fairly standard. The "Tuff1" sleeve looks about as simple as simple can be. It should fit just about anything; you could probably put the thing on a dustpan handle.

http://tuff1.com/tuff1-worlds-best-universal-gun-grips http://www.amazon.com/Pachmayr-Grips-Colt-D-Inch-Frame/dp/B0002INP9I/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_sims?ie=UTF8

From one of the user reviews: "Please be aware that Colt changed the design of the grip frame of the D frame guns in 1965/66 (the frame was shortened). These grips will not fit properly on the older models with the longer grip frame. On the newer guns they fit good and provide a comfortable grip. "D" frame revolvers: •Detective Special •Diamondback •Police Positive Special •Cobra •Agent •Viper •SF-VI, DS-II, Magnum Carry and Lady Special" http://www.amazon.com/Hogue-Rubber-Special-Diamondback-Monogrip/dp/B0002ILQDU

If you can be born in Kenya....

It's considered radical and a "militia" group, although on its face it doesn't appear to be. As a group, it has shown up armed and ready to confront at protests. Looking from the outside-in, it appears a recipe for disaster. I like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations; regrettably, they are great organizations in declining membership.

The Navy and Marine Corps are the two most convervative branches; they have both been the lone holdouts on the PC movement. Had he been in another branch, he'd already be drawn-and-quartered.

Sometimes the world can actually seem pleasant: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/09/04/navy-exonerates-chaplain-accused-being-anti-gay.html?intcmp=hpbt4 Too bad he's still having to retire. Hopefully they'll get the POS who started this fiasco.

Amen to that!

I'd say in his mind there was a race war; the earlier SC Church shooting was prevalent in his thoughts. It will be interesting to see details about him emerge. From what I've seen: - He had a tendency of not staying at one place too long. If the last TV station where he worked is any indicator (that's where the reporter and photographer he shot also worked), he was volatile in the workplace and prone to fits of rage and anger. - The lawsuit he brought against that station a year ago was "without merit". He perceived slights and prejudice from his co-workers, yet was unable to prove things in court; his sexuality and ethnicity gave no advantage in court in his bias lawsuit. Paranoia, delusions, or both? Or did the station just have better lawyers? - On one hand, he expressed solidarity with the SC Church shooting victims (he supposedly carved their initials in each of the bullets he shot); on the other, he railed against the black community for the way he was treated as a gay man. Conflicted indeed. The race war a sham: simply a justification in his head to blame others for his inability to socialize with with people. I've been around folks like him many times; no matter how kind, how friendly, or how fairly you treat them, every effort on your part is either a failure, a slight, or part of a concerted effort by "everyone" to undermine and embarass them. Powder keg is right; he nailed it. He understood what was happening; he just didn't know why. This case reminds me more of the former Navy Lieutenant who killed the policemen in California... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt I don't know that this has been brought up in the press yet. Odd....

Agreed. You're spot-on. At 90 years, he's lived a good life; hopefully he can squeeze-out a couple more.

I've had it happen 3 times now... I do an internet search via Google. I see something posted at www.sporterizing.com. I click the link, and get re-routed to AdultFinder.com; not a member, nor have I been a member. It's only happening with this site, with all of the many searches I perform. It's rather shocking expecting a photo of a Mauser and getting something else entirely. I'm wondering if that's where the blacklisting is coming from. Somehow your domain is getting hijacked?

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/08/20/jimmy-carter-to-discuss-cancer-diagnosis-publicly/?intcmp=hpbt2 I don't know that former President Carter and I would agree on much politically, but I've always been impressed with his grace and sincerity. Politics aside, he's probably one of the most intelligent Presidents to serve. He's a former Navy man, serving with the Nuclear program at its infancy. "I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease. I've had a wonderful life," the 90-year-old Carter said. "It's in God's hands. I'll be prepared for anything that comes." He's certainly a man who acts as he speaks, and his post-presidency's humanitarian efforts are without equal. At 90 and battling cancer, he's talking about finally "slowing-down". Wow.

Looks like you were lucky; it could have been quite worse. It not being your shooting eye is even better. Do you know what happened? Why it detached? For the time being, you can wear an eye patch and tell all sorts of war stories. You Old Salt, you just need a parrot on your shoulder and need to start every sentence with "Arrrrrrrhhh..."

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Germans-use-spies-dressed-as-American-soldiers-during-the-Battle-of-the-Bulge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greif If you look at about 1:23, the guy looks like the condemned on the far right of your first picture. The guy at 1:31 (in the glasses) is definitely the guy in the center of the photo. Germans donning American uniforms were captured an executed. At one time, our enemies wearing our uniforms was a bad thing.

I remember seeing similar before. I'm betting Geneva Convention violations, or "combatants" who didn't fall under Convention guidelines. German soldiers dressed as civilians engaging US forces. German soldiers wearing US uniforms. Post-War resistance fighters who engaged US forces.

http://daniemon.com/blog/how-to-wipe-a-hard-drive-with-linux/ sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx (where "sdx" is the HD identifier) works very well under linux. It will return the drive to a raw, unformated state with every sector on the HD completely written over with random data. It would be impossible to recover any data with a full wipe. You can then use Linux to setup a new partition on the device with fdisk, set it to NTFS with fdisk, install it on a Windows machine, and format there. There are a number of reasons for extra partitions: 1. The vendor might have a hidden partition for recovery files. Most folks have this on their systems and don't realize it. It's accessed either through the BIOS or a special recovery CD. I was going to cobble a custom version of Windows 7 together for a friend (his son loaded the HD with viruses, and over 1000 removed infected items later, the system didn't work well). I went through Linux and found the extra partition. The beauty of this is that when run, it will return the system to an absolute orginal factory state. Saved me much work and headache. I had to do some internet snooping to figure how to access it. 2. When Windows formats drives under NTFS, it appears that NTFS only can use certain sizes of partitions, it it can't use the whole drive, it "rounds-down" and sets the remainder as an unformatted area that can look like a partition. It's usually very small, but still odd-looking if you don't expect it. 3. Newer versions of Windows (I know version 8.1), expressly warns that it will create a small parition for system data. I never bothered to look and see what it actually did, but the warning was evident. Perhaps Windows 7 did this too. Dunno. Fedora is awesome. I'm running 21/22 on a number of systems. My 75 year-old mother has had zero problems with it under Gnome 3 (the same system running WinXP had me making many repair visits). My teenage daughter is doing well on her system too. Both are set with Chrome (I prefer Firefox for ethical reasons, but FF's lack of modern Flash support under Linux has forced me to compromise).

SSDs are very fast... Nothing says you can't throw that extra 2TB drive into the desktop case and use it for storage/backups. Or you can always find a member on here that can use the 2 TB drive You shouldn't (and probably can't under newer versions of Windows) defragment SSDs. The older platter-style HDs certainly can benefit from an occasional defrag though. Nothing speeds-up a machine like adding memory (and it's relatively cheap). If your system supports 4 or 8 GB of RAM, MAX it out. If your system supports over 8 GB of RAM, I'd have at least 8 in it.

Are you running Firefox, Chrome, or Explorer? Some viruses install plugins that can cripple a browser. If all else fails, try resetting the browser to default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/reset-ie-settings#ie=ie-11

I'm sure there are areas of Paris that would fail to impress. Things certainly have changed in the last 20 years in the USA concerning formal and business atire. Growing up, ALL men wore at least a coat an tie in church; women always wore conservative dresses. Now I'm seeing some churches posting signs at entrances to the sanctuary, defining IN PICTURES what is acceptable. Funerals used to be conservative. Now I'm seeing men wearing their Sunday-best pocket-tees and jeans to pay their respects; some of the dresses that young women wear to services and graveside look more like they're prepped for an evening job on a street corner. I'm seeing male high school graduates wearing shorts and sandals as they walk across the podium to accept that diploma; relatives flew in from all over the country to watch them look like buffoons. I'm sure I'm not much better at times, but I do my damndest to at least dress "business casual" for more formal occasions; a long-sleeved dress shirt with khakis, and maybe a tie.

Couldn't you use a 93-96 stock? You'd be removing wood, not having to fill (except for the internal locking-lug area; expoxy would fix that).

Should be fine as a single shot. Look at what you'd need to remove from the receiver to make it work as a repeater (specifically at the bottom guide-rib as it glides through the lower locking-lug raceway). Even if you could modify the magazine, or install a replacement single-column magazine, you're removing a good amount of meat to allow the 405 cartridge to rise. What would the lower locking lug/guide be supported by? Looking at it, I wouldn't attempt to feed a cartridge with a outside neck diameter wider than that raceway.

Thank God for wheel weights. Oh, wait, those are harming wildlife too. I'm sure those will be copper now.